Historical Maps of Imperial Russia (1721-1917)

 

1788 Taurida

Description: Partial map showing Kherson to Berislaw.

Source: Jean-Claude Dezauche

 

1803 Liebental District

Description: Early map showing the plots of land that would become the Liebental district near the city of Odessa

Contributor: Jana Egge, Matt Klee and Merv Weiss

 

1829 Geographical Atlas of the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Poland, and the Grand Duchy of Finland

Description: This atlas by Vasilii Petrovich Piadyushev (1758-1835) appears ub several repositories on the internet, including earlier versions which were corrected in this 1829 version. These are georeferenced (searchable by coordinates and current place names) on the David Rumsey Map Collection website. The full atlas can be viewed there as well. Those maps shown here are the provinces that make up what is considered the Black Sea region, although some of these would not have German settlements until the mid-1800s.

Source: David Rumsey Map Collection

 

1829 Land of the Settled Nogai Tatars on the Azov Sea with the neighboring countries and German colonies

This map was included in a book entitled Bruchstücke aus einigen Reisen nach dem südlichen Russland, in den Jahren 1822 bis 1828: mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Nogayen-Tataren am Asowschen Meere [Fragments from some journeys to southern Russia in the years 1822 to 1828: with special reference to the Nogayen Tatars on the Sea of Azov] by Daniel Schlatter.

Source: e|rara [Zürich Central Library]   Source URL: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/zoom/7882416

 

1835 Kherson District and Black Sea Region

Contributor: Dale Wahl Collection

Baldwin and Cradock, 47 Paternoster Row, London, under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of  Useful Knowledge

 

1852 Kustenländer des Schwarzen Meeres (Coastal Countries of the Black Sea)

Contributor: Dale Wahl Collection

Stahlstich (Direction v. Kleinknecht) aus der Schweinfurter Geographischen Gravieranstalt des Bibliographischen Instituts zu Hildburghausen, Amsterdam, u. Philiadelphia

 

1855 Atlas of the Evangelical Lutheran Communities in Russia

Description: In this image, four pages of the atlas were stitched together to show the title, small overview map of European Russia,
and the four provinces of South Russia: Bessarabien (Bessarabia), Cherson (Kherson), Jekaterinoslaw (Ekaterinoslav)
and Taurien (Taurida).

Source: David Rumsey Map Collection

 

1890 Schematic map of German land ownership in Kherson Governorate

[Schemakarte des deutschen Landbesitzes im Gouvernment Cherson im Jahre 1890]
Source: German Captured Documents Collection, Reports from Ethnic German Communities in Ukraine 1940-44. FamilySearch, FHL#: 8878483, images 435 and 436.

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German Colonies/Villages on map

 

1897 Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas. 30 Karten mit 300 Nebenkarten, entworfen, bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Paul Langhans. [German Colonial Atlas. 30 maps with 300 inset maps, designed, edited, and published by Paul Langhans.] Gotha: Justus Perthus. 1897. Langans Map

Source: David Rumsey Map Collection  Source URL

 

1897 Northwestern Russia

Contributor: Murray Gauer

(The Century Atlas; Russia, Western & Southern Part; The Century Co.; New York, NY ©1897)

 

1897 Southwestern Russia

Contributor: Murray Gauer

(The Century Atlas; Russia, Western & Southern Part; The Century Co.; New York, NY ©1897)

 

1914 Austrian Military Maps

 

 

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